Tahrir al-Sham counter the claims by the US that they are "al-Qaeda" and insist that they are part of the 'revolution against tyranny', that the formation of HTS is a response to the population calling on the factions to unite, and accuse the west of complacency concerning the chemical attacks of 2013, Russian airstrikes, arming the PKK, as well as the west's silence on Iranian militia crimes.